TITLE:
Wind Turbines as Additional Power Supply
AUTHORS:
Arwa Azhry Mohammed Othman, Rawia Abdalgani, Mubarak Dirar
KEYWORDS:
Wind Turbine, Renewable Energy, Generate Electricity, Power Supply
JOURNAL NAME:
Natural Science,
Vol.10 No.6,
June
28,
2018
ABSTRACT: Recently, mankind’s
need for more amount of energy has been increasing day by day, though there is
a trend to reduce the usage of the traditional energy source to an energy
carrier (or fuel) that results in emitting harmful gases to the envi-ronment
that is separated in the air and water. Researchers have conducted re-searches
to increase projects that will generate clean and renewable energy. Us-age of
renewable energy via mankind is in continuous progress such as solar en-ergy,
bioenergy, ocean energy and wind energy. Wind energy waste while the car moved
was used to produce electric energy. In this paper, the usage of unused wind
energy in vehicles was developed so that additional power for vehicles was
enable via converting wind power into electric one. The wind turbine was
assem-bled from a fan and transducer. Indoor test showed generation of
different elec-tric voltages when varying the ambient temperature. The main
experiment was carried out so that the wind turbine was installed above the
car; values of volt-ages in various speeds of the car were recorded. When two
fans were used with different specifications, the consequence was a direct
proportionality that changes the happened between voltages and car’s speeds. A
comparison between the two fans showed that: the fan with big blade dimensions
was the best one to generate voltages. Finally, the high voltages were
generated in low temperatures. These results reveal that we can avail from wind
energy to supply vehicles with electricity as long as vehicles move along the
way.